[Tilesathome] Any objections

[Matthias Julius]

Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian at sspaeth.de> writes:

> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian at sspaeth.de> writes:
>> 
>>> Pubs on the other hand would be a nice candidate for a POI overlay layer
>>> that can be switched on/off. We could afford some more clutter then.
>> 
>> And ideally this would not be a tiled layer.  Instead the client
>> applications would download pubs from XAPI and display an icon with
>> caption on the map for each of them.  Can OpenLayers do such a thing?
>> It would be quite insane to try to host tiled layers for each POI type
>> (pubs, restaurants, fast food places, gas stations, post boxes, ...).
>
> Yes, one layer per item would be insane. Having one switchable POI layer
> for all kinds of POIs though would be quite feasible. Of course, more
> control would be nice, theoretically....

Maybe POI layers could be rendered in realtime on a dedicated POI tile
server.  It should be a lot less demanding than mapnik.

Matthias